OpenSSH 2.4?

[Todd Lewis]

FWIW, support for '-S' is not mandated in the POSIX 1003.2 definition
of the 'test' utility.  (I've got the first edition, 1993-12-22; YMMV.)

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Todd Lewis                                       tlewis at secureworks.net

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On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> 
> > No one has given me an acceptable replace for 'test -S'... So I'm not
> > personally inclined to muck with it.=)
> 
> What platforms do/don't support 'test -S' (without the addition of the
> GNU tools)?
> 
> If it is just one or two, then we could disable the test for them at
> the expense of losing autodetection of the EGD socket.
> 
> The alternative it to write a little test program which stats the file.
> 
> -d
> 
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